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A fair argument against weight-based taxes on raw marijuana plant material is that different parts of the plant need different tax rates. So categories are needed. A particularly difficult line to draw may be that between bud (flower) and trim (leaves). That topic has been covered here, in a link below in my message to … Continue reading How is bud-trim line working in California?

Colorado now has seven categories of marijuana to weigh in its de facto weight-based marijuana tax. Wet bud and wet trim are to have different tax rates per gram than dry bud and dry trim. And there are completely new categories of wet and dry “whole plant” Here’s the language: (22) “Wet” refers to Retail … Continue reading Beyond Bud-Trim

Several posts here have looked at whether taxing bud at one rate and trim at another is viable. One argument that the line is self-enforcing, as bud is smoked and trim made into concentrates. But even without a tax incentive to put bud in the trim pile, businesses do just that. Here is an ad, … Continue reading Bud-trim line, continued

Fascinating Update at https://newrevenue.org/2014/09/22/rose-habib-on-the-bud-trim-line/ — sophisticated analysis from an industry expert, who knows far more than I. Context: Colorado is de facto imposing wholesale per-gram marijuana taxes: 62 cents for potent bud, or flowers, and 10 cents for less valuable trim, or leaves. New Approach Oregon’s prominent 2014 initiative would tax bud at $1.23 a gram, trim at … Continue reading Can the bud-trim line hold?

“It would be impractical to try to establish legally enforceable standards of how well trimmed a bud can be before it is no longer legally a bud.” That’s from After Legalization, by Jon Walker of Firedog Lake. Phil Smith calls the book “in-depth, thoughtful, and insightful.” Here are the stakes: In states that draw a … Continue reading Bud-Trim Line

The tax on marijuana bud or “flower” in Alaska is $50 an ounce. Regulators there are considering cutting the tax to $25 for “immature flower” that appears “loose” or “wispy.” My reaction is: No! Please don’t! Unforced error! “Loose” and “wispy”? Who’s to say?

Nevada taxes marijuana like Colorado, with a de facto weight tax (and a percentage-based retail tax). Alaska taxes only by weight. So three of the five states collecting marijuana taxes now are doing so by weighing every gram (Washington and Oregon tax only by percentage of retail price). UPDATE: California taxes by weight, too; MA … Continue reading Nevada’s 70-cent per gram tax on marijuana flower

This is an October 30, 2014, update, of a mid-August post: Rates of $35 an ounce for potent flowers, $10 an ounce for less potent leaves, and $5 per immature plant: Those are the tax rates in Oregon’s Measure 91, which recently qualified for the November 2014 ballot. A reader asks: Are they too high? Are … Continue reading Marijuna tax rates in Oregon and Alaska